Posts Tagged ‘Jaguar

Image of the Day: Jaguar at SCOTY

Image of the Day: Jaguar at SCOTY

The Scottish Car of the Year is an event we non-Scot journos consider with equal fear and envy. It sounds a riotously good night out, with the great and the ...

August 2011: what is Porsche up to at the moment?

August 2011: what is Porsche up to at the moment?

Porsche is not phasing out the 997 just yet. Nor is it admitting the 991 is actually on the way.  That’s despite prototype tests of the 911, in which many ...

How the Jaguar XKR-S was born

How the Jaguar XKR-S was born

The Jaguar XKR-S started life in a way that will be familiar to designers the world over – using a storyboard process. But although this process sounds suspiciously soft and ...

The auto brands Lotus has links with

The auto brands Lotus has links with

Lotus is the car company that wants to be associated with everyone at the moment.  Or should it be Lotus is the car company everyone wants to be associated with? ...

Jaguar XKR-S: tunnel run YouTube star

Jaguar XKR-S: tunnel run YouTube star

Jaguar launched the XKR-S at Portugal’s Portimao circuit – whose infield was accessed via a long, tall and deliciously tempting tunnel. We needed infield access as we were driving the ...

2012 Jaguar XF engineering: did you know?

2012 Jaguar XF engineering: did you know?

Jaguar did not just reveal the science behind the styling of the 2012 XF when I visited Whitley a few weeks back: it also provided a tech briefing, too. It’s ...

2012 Jaguar XF styling: did you know?

2012 Jaguar XF styling: did you know?

Jaguar ran yet another superb press event for the 2012 Jaguar XF, at its Whitley engineering centre. The firm really is masters of these events: it knows exactly what journos ...

Jaguar adds colour to Yamazumi your life

Jaguar adds colour to Yamazumi your life

Jaguar Castle Bromwich is awash with pretty-coloured bar charts that, on a recent visit, caught the colour-craving part of my brain. Being constantly awed by production engineers whenever I meet ...

Land Rover’s ride quality secret

Land Rover’s ride quality secret

LAND Rovers all have a characteristic to their ride quality that has to be imparted on all its vehicles, chassis man Murray Dietsch told me. The secret, he says, is ...

Relax: It’s ESP

Relax: It’s ESP

AIRCRAFT can either show relaxed stability or positive stability. Relaxed stability aircraft are unflyable without computer assistance – fly-by-wire. It’s impossible for a human to compensate for their sheer twitchiness. ...